[8] The track did not receive any marketing or promotion; its surprise release coincided with the start of Deafheaven's March–April 2019 US tour with Baroness.

[3][7][10][11] Other critics noted elements of thrash metal[1][2][3][4] and compared it to the darker and heavier material on their 2015 album New Bermuda.

"[2] Revolver said of the song: "Not only has the single dropped seemingly out of the blue, but it's also Deafheaven's heaviest offering yet, a fully necro blast of sepulchral grimness.

The seven-and-a-half-minute cut is a B-side from Ordinary Corrupt Human Love, and one can only wonder how different the album would have felt as a whole with its inclusion.

"[7] In their review of Deafheaven's performance on their tour with Baroness, the Los Angeles Times' August Brown wrote: "The new, writhing single 'Black Brick' pulls more from classic thrash, and its sudden peals of violence put everything else around it in sharper focus.